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Re: Find out on which branch a commit was originally made

From
Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net>
Date
Sep 24, 2010, 18:26 UTC
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<4C9CED68.50203@shatow.net>
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  On 9/18/2010 4:19 AM, Stefan Haller wrote:
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> I'm trying to pursuade my co-workers to switch from Subversion to Git;
> some of them prefer Mercurial.
>
> One concern that they are raising is that in Git there doesn't seem to
> be an easy way to find out on which branch a given commit was originally
> made, after the branch is merged back and deleted. They consider this a
> show-stopper.  In Mercurial, branch information is meta data attached to
> each commit, so you can easily get this information even after a branch
> is closed.
>

Use an issue tracker? Associate the commits with ticket numbers in the commit msg.

git commit -m "Blah Blah Blah (refs #someticket)"
Bryan Drewery
Previous: Stefan Haller
Message 33 of 33 in “Find out on which branch a commit was originally made”
  1. Stefan HallerSep 18, 2010
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 18, 2010
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 18, 2010
  4. Tor ArntsenSep 18, 2010
  5. Stefan HallerSep 18, 2010
  6. Artur SkawinaSep 18, 2010
  7. Stefan HallerSep 19, 2010
  8. Clemens BuchacherSep 19, 2010
  9. Artur SkawinaSep 19, 2010
  10. Stefan HallerSep 19, 2010
  11. Artur SkawinaSep 19, 2010
  12. Robin RosenbergSep 19, 2010
  13. Seth RobertsonSep 19, 2010
  14. Artur SkawinaSep 19, 2010
  15. Seth RobertsonSep 19, 2010
  16. Artur SkawinaSep 20, 2010
  17. Seth RobertsonSep 20, 2010
  18. Stefan HallerSep 20, 2010
  19. Artur SkawinaSep 20, 2010
  20. Artur SkawinaSep 20, 2010
  21. Seth RobertsonSep 21, 2010
  22. Artur SkawinaSep 21, 2010
  23. ANNOUNCE git-what-branch (was Re: Find out on which branch a commit was originally made)Seth Robertson, Sep 22, 2010
  24. Artur SkawinaSep 22, 2010
  25. Seth RobertsonSep 22, 2010
  26. Stephen BashSep 23, 2010
  27. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 23, 2010
  28. Artur SkawinaSep 23, 2010
  29. Artur SkawinaSep 24, 2010
  30. Seth RobertsonSep 24, 2010
  31. Seth RobertsonSep 23, 2010
  32. Stefan HallerSep 20, 2010
  33. Bryan DrewerySep 24, 2010

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